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It was the home of the Guild of St Anne of Knowle (a religious and charitable foundation), but in later years it served many other purposes.

W J Porritt, Thomas Fair and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of

This Fylde village changed only with the advent of motorised traffic.

Lying close to the larger holiday centre of Morecambe, Heysham has been popular with visitors since the Victorian period, many coming to sample the famous locally brewed nettle beer.

Speedwell Cavern, at the foot of the Winnats Pass, is another of Castleton's famous show caves.

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

This rural scene shows the church of St Thomas the Apostle.

A nursemaid sits with her two charges enjoying the sun on Castle Hill. Behind, a seating area nestles in the remnants of some ancient building whose purpose is now unclear.

The town has recovered its air of prosperity after the hardships and shortages of the war years, and its growing affluence is demonstrated by the number of cars parked beside the pavements.

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

This one-street town is one of the most delightful in England; it is a special place to visit and an even better one to stay in, to use as a base for the exploration of Worcestershire.

In the centre a horse and cart stand by the pond; perhaps they have visited this spot so that the animal could have a drink of fresh water at Picklefoot Spring, which emerges here.

Although not a market day, there is still plenty of activity along the road.

Without the finials and pinnacles seen in earlier photographs of Christ Church it looks a much plainer building.

The first steam-powered vessel to sail on Windermere, the Lady of the Lake, was built by Richard Ashburner of Greenodd.

Here we have a lovely view of St Mary's, the parish church of Penwortham. The most famous person resting here must be John Horrocks, who founded his great cotton empire at Preston.

A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

Built in 1877, it was badly damaged in the three-night 'Blitz' of 1941 which claimed so many of Swansea's buildings (and not a few of its more unfortunate inhabitants).

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.